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753311

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Baroness Anelay of St Johns on 13 July (HLWS43), what are (1) the UK obligations to the EU, and (2) the EU obligations to the UK, "that will survive the UK's withdrawal"; and how they intend to resolve those obligations.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kinnock
	uin	HL999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2017 answer text <p>The terms of the UK’s departure from the EU will depend on negotiations with the EU and other Member States. There is no established precedent for leaving the EU.</p><p>We are focussed on securing the best possible deal for the United Kingdom as we leave the European Union.</p><p>The UK is a country that meets its international obligations and we will work with the EU to determine a fair settlement of the UK’s rights and obligations as a departing Member State, in accordance with the law and in the spirit of our continuing partnership.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 02/08/2017 14:32:10 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
	tabling member	693 label Biography information for Lord Kinnock

753307

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of children housed in temporary accommodation in each year from 2005 to 2016.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Time spent in temporary accommodation means that no family with a child ever has to be without a roof over their heads. The number of households in temporary accommodation is well below the peak over a decade ago, in 2005.</p><p>But temporary accommodation is an intermediate measure. This government changed the law to allow councils to place families in decent and affordable private rented homes. This means homeless households do not have to wait as long for settled accommodation, spending less time in temporary accommodation.</p><p>We have also replaced DWP’s Temporary Accommodation Management Fee with a Flexible Homelessness Support Grant which local authorities can use more strategically to prevent and tackle homelessness. This amounts to £402m over the two years from 2017/18.</p><p>This government is implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, which significantly reforms England’s homelessness legislation, ensuring that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>The Act places duties on local authorities to intervene at earlier stages to prevent homelessness in their areas. It also requires local authorities to provide new homelessness services to all those affected, not just those who are protected under existing legislation.</p><p>I will place detailed figures in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth grouped question UIN HL993 HL994 question first answered 11/09/2017 14:53:48 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

753306

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many households were housed in temporary accommodation in each year from 2005 to 2016.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL994
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Time spent in temporary accommodation means that no family with a child ever has to be without a roof over their heads. The number of households in temporary accommodation is well below the peak over a decade ago, in 2005.</p><p>But temporary accommodation is an intermediate measure. This government changed the law to allow councils to place families in decent and affordable private rented homes. This means homeless households do not have to wait as long for settled accommodation, spending less time in temporary accommodation.</p><p>We have also replaced DWP’s Temporary Accommodation Management Fee with a Flexible Homelessness Support Grant which local authorities can use more strategically to prevent and tackle homelessness. This amounts to £402m over the two years from 2017/18.</p><p>This government is implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, which significantly reforms England’s homelessness legislation, ensuring that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>The Act places duties on local authorities to intervene at earlier stages to prevent homelessness in their areas. It also requires local authorities to provide new homelessness services to all those affected, not just those who are protected under existing legislation.</p><p>I will place detailed figures in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth grouped question UIN HL993 HL995 question first answered 11/09/2017 14:53:48 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

753305

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many households were accepted as unintentionally homeless in each year from 2005 to 2016.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL993
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Time spent in temporary accommodation means that no family with a child ever has to be without a roof over their heads. The number of households in temporary accommodation is well below the peak over a decade ago, in 2005.</p><p>But temporary accommodation is an intermediate measure. This government changed the law to allow councils to place families in decent and affordable private rented homes. This means homeless households do not have to wait as long for settled accommodation, spending less time in temporary accommodation.</p><p>We have also replaced DWP’s Temporary Accommodation Management Fee with a Flexible Homelessness Support Grant which local authorities can use more strategically to prevent and tackle homelessness. This amounts to £402m over the two years from 2017/18.</p><p>This government is implementing the most ambitious legislative reform in decades, the Homelessness Reduction Act, which significantly reforms England’s homelessness legislation, ensuring that more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.</p><p>The Act places duties on local authorities to intervene at earlier stages to prevent homelessness in their areas. It also requires local authorities to provide new homelessness services to all those affected, not just those who are protected under existing legislation.</p><p>I will place detailed figures in the Library of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth grouped question UIN HL994 HL995 question first answered 11/09/2017 14:53:48 answering member 4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

753264

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what is their response to the decision by the High Court of Hong Kong to disqualify four democratically elected members of the Legislative Council; and what representations they are making to the government of China regarding that case.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL952
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2017 answer text <p>In November 2016 the Government expressed concern at the decision by the National People's Congress Standing Committee to express its interpretation of the Basic Law before the conclusion of legal proceedings in Hong Kong against two legislators-elect regarding the validity of their oath-taking<strong>.</strong></p><p>The four cases referred to are a matter for the Hong Kong Courts. We understand that the legislators may appeal against this judgement. It would therefore not be appropriate to comment on what is an ongoing legal matter. We will continue to follow developments closely.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 02/08/2017 10:06:41 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

753263

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what action the Higher Education Funding Council for England has taken to restrain the growth in senior management pay in the higher education sector.
	tabling member printed	Lord Adonis
	uin	HL951
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/08/2017 answer text <p>Minister Johnson, the Minister for Universities and Science, in his speech at Reform on 20 July 2017, called on the sector to put an end to increasing vice chancellor pay and provide justification for the exceptional circumstances for large pay awards to improve value for money.</p><p> </p><p>He also announced that he will be issuing new guidance to the Office for Students (OfS) to use its powers to address this problem.</p><p> </p><p>Universities are autonomous bodies and it is their responsibility to determine pay arrangements for their staff. However, Minister Johnson has called for action to put an end to the upward spiral in vice chancellors’ pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s 2017/18 grant letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) stated:</p><p> </p><p>“The Government is clear that efficiency includes demonstrating restraint in senior pay and remains concerned about the substantial upwards drift in salaries of some top management. We would like to see senior leaders in the sector exercise more pay restraint.”</p><p> </p><p>HEFCE issued guidance to the sector on severance pay and the remuneration of senior staff in June 2017: <a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2017/CL,172017/" target="_blank">http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2017/CL,172017/</a> (copy attached).</p><p> </p><p>It states that governing bodies and remuneration committees should always bear in mind the principles outlined and to record clearly the rationale behind their decisions, including any divergence from the guidance.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg grouped question UIN HL946 HL947 HL948 HL949 HL950 question first answered 09/08/2017 16:09:58 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg attachment 1 file name HEFCE guidance on severance pay and the reuneration of senior staff June 2017.pdf title HEFCE severance pay & remumeration of senior staff
	tabling member	3743 label Biography information for Lord Adonis

753262

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to limit increases in senior managaement pay in the higher education sector.
	tabling member printed	Lord Adonis
	uin	HL950
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/08/2017 answer text <p>Minister Johnson, the Minister for Universities and Science, in his speech at Reform on 20 July 2017, called on the sector to put an end to increasing vice chancellor pay and provide justification for the exceptional circumstances for large pay awards to improve value for money.</p><p> </p><p>He also announced that he will be issuing new guidance to the Office for Students (OfS) to use its powers to address this problem.</p><p> </p><p>Universities are autonomous bodies and it is their responsibility to determine pay arrangements for their staff. However, Minister Johnson has called for action to put an end to the upward spiral in vice chancellors’ pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s 2017/18 grant letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) stated:</p><p> </p><p>“The Government is clear that efficiency includes demonstrating restraint in senior pay and remains concerned about the substantial upwards drift in salaries of some top management. We would like to see senior leaders in the sector exercise more pay restraint.”</p><p> </p><p>HEFCE issued guidance to the sector on severance pay and the remuneration of senior staff in June 2017: <a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2017/CL,172017/" target="_blank">http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2017/CL,172017/</a> (copy attached).</p><p> </p><p>It states that governing bodies and remuneration committees should always bear in mind the principles outlined and to record clearly the rationale behind their decisions, including any divergence from the guidance.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg grouped question UIN HL946 HL947 HL948 HL949 HL951 question first answered 09/08/2017 16:09:58 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg attachment 1 file name HEFCE guidance on severance pay and the reuneration of senior staff June 2017.pdf title HEFCE severance pay & remumeration of senior staff
	tabling member	3743 label Biography information for Lord Adonis

753260

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government whether any Minister or official has met the Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England to express concerns about top management pay in the higher education sector; and, if so, what was the outcome of any discussion.
	tabling member printed	Lord Adonis
	uin	HL948
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/08/2017 answer text <p>Minister Johnson, the Minister for Universities and Science, in his speech at Reform on 20 July 2017, called on the sector to put an end to increasing vice chancellor pay and provide justification for the exceptional circumstances for large pay awards to improve value for money.</p><p> </p><p>He also announced that he will be issuing new guidance to the Office for Students (OfS) to use its powers to address this problem.</p><p> </p><p>Universities are autonomous bodies and it is their responsibility to determine pay arrangements for their staff. However, Minister Johnson has called for action to put an end to the upward spiral in vice chancellors’ pay.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s 2017/18 grant letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) stated:</p><p> </p><p>“The Government is clear that efficiency includes demonstrating restraint in senior pay and remains concerned about the substantial upwards drift in salaries of some top management. We would like to see senior leaders in the sector exercise more pay restraint.”</p><p> </p><p>HEFCE issued guidance to the sector on severance pay and the remuneration of senior staff in June 2017: <a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2017/CL,172017/" target="_blank">http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2017/CL,172017/</a> (copy attached).</p><p> </p><p>It states that governing bodies and remuneration committees should always bear in mind the principles outlined and to record clearly the rationale behind their decisions, including any divergence from the guidance.</p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg grouped question UIN HL946 HL947 HL949 HL950 HL951 question first answered 09/08/2017 16:09:58 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg attachment 1 file name HEFCE guidance on severance pay and the reuneration of senior staff June 2017.pdf title HEFCE severance pay & remumeration of senior staff
	tabling member	3743 label Biography information for Lord Adonis

752477

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the instruction included on the 2016 London Mayoral election that voters should “Vote once [x] in column A for your first choice, and Vote once [x] in column B for your second choice”, whether they instructed the returning officers for (1) that election, and (2) other mayoral elections, to make it clear to voters that they must vote both for a first choice and for a second choice candidate; if so, on what basis that instruction was given; and whether they intend to review their instructions for future mayoral elections.
	tabling member printed	Lord Palmer of Childs Hill
	uin	HL923
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2017 answer text <p>The Government did not issue instructions to Returning Officers for the May 2016 London Mayoral and other mayoral elections to inform voters they must vote for a first choice and second choice candidate. The instruction on the ballot paper reflects how the supplementary vote works but it is for the voter to decide who they wish to vote for and whether they want to vote for one, two or any candidates. The Government is happy to consider any additional information on how to complete a ballot paper for polls using the supplementary vote system but, as was said in our manifesto, we are keen to move to the First Past the Post system for such polls which we think will be clearer and easier for electors to use.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Courtown question first answered 06/09/2017 12:55:39 answering member 3359 label Biography information for The Earl of Courtown
	tabling member	4214 label Biography information for Lord Palmer of Childs Hill

1175805

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what data they collect about air pollution at, and near to, airports.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
	uin	HL798
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government has a national air quality monitoring network. In addition to this, local authorities undertake their own monitoring and have an obligation to review and assess local air quality and to take action where they have identified an air quality problem.</p><p> </p><p>Different airports have different obligations for monitoring and reporting air quality, with some reporting requirements necessary by law through planning obligations. Results of this monitoring are shared with stakeholders and are available online.</p><p> </p><p>In the Aviation Strategy, the Government is considering a broad range of national aviation-related air quality initiatives including proposals to improve the monitoring of air pollution around airports.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 10/02/2020 17:06:59 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
	tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb